Reply #196: I don't think there's any up side to that sort of thing for anyone. [View All]

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It won't save our economy or anything, that's for sure. So it seems like a poor choice of options.

I am leaning towards them maneuvering a nuclear first strike somewhere. A full blown nuclear confrontation is probably looking better and better to the ones who can make these things happpen, at least from a cost/benefit standpoint. Even more so than when Bush was in office. The inevitable economic fallout from the devastation in the Gulf may be what tips the balance for these masters of the universe.